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...girl is Barbra Streisand, Broadway's newest star (see SHOW BUSINESS). Her opening in Funny Girl was witnessed by a contingent of TIME editors who, with rare unanimity, loved the show. "We went to the cast party afterwards, high atop the RCA building," recalls one, "and in that heady atmosphere decided to do a cover instantly...
...Barbra's half-furnished penthouse, Artist Henry Koerner painted the cover portrait in three sittings, while "interior decorators were coming in by the droves." More or less at the same time, she also managed to run through scenes from the show for Photographer Ormond Gigli, whose color shots accompany our story, and to rove the town with Reporter Ray Kennedy, shopping for antiques, shoes or Fudgsicles. Says Kennedy: "I felt as if I were on a teen-age date...
Funny Girl. If New York were Paris, Broadway could temporarily consider renaming itself the Rue Streisand. Some stars merely brighten up a marquee; Barbra Streisand sets an entire theater ablaze. Funny Girl-the saga of famed Comedienne Fanny Brice which opened last week in Manhattan-has fireworks. Streisand has firepower...
...times Barbra Streisand bears an uncanny resemblance to Fanny Brice, but echoes of yesteryear are not the real point. For in her own right Streisand is the compleat clown, psychologically foiling the world by supplying her own banana peels to slip on. Her face is a choppy sea of doubletalk, and her talk tries to take back what her face just said. She is an anthology of the awkward graces, all knees and elbows, or else a boneless wonder, a seal doing an unbalancing act. All her devices are attention-getting devices and point astutely to the gnawing doubt...
...Funny Girl, how sheer grit is polished into great talent and the price that is paid for that pearl of success. This familiar story failed in Sophie (about Sophie Tucker) and Jennie (about Laurette Taylor), but it is surprisingly successful in Funny Girl. The difference is partly that Barbra Streisand's Fanny Brice is driven by the heat of desire rather than the cold of ambition, has spasms of panic as well as mountains of spunk. The usual standbys are unusually appealing. Kay Medford's stage mother is more loving than shoving, and her chopped-liver...